Process for packing stogies.



G. H. SGHMUNK. PROCESS FOR. PACKING STOGIES.

Patented May 19,1914.

APPLIOATION FILED OCT. 10,

COLUMBIA PLAmGRAPH 60., WASHINGTON, DJ:-

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GEORGE HENRY SCHMUNK, OF CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, BUTLER COUNTY, PENNSYL-VANIA, ASSIGNOR TO PITTSBURGH STOGIE AND CIGAR COMPANY, OF PITTSBURGH,PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

PROCESS FOR PACKING STOGIES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 10, 1912.

Patented May 19, 1914.

Serial No. 724,916.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Gnonen HENRY SGHMUNK,citizen of the United States, and residing in the township of Cranberry,in the county of Butler and State of Pennsylvania, have invented ordiscovered new and useful Improvements in Processes for Packing Stogies,of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a new and improved process for packing stogiesin drums or other containers wherein the stogies are placed verticallyor on end.

Stogies which have not been subjected to considerable and prolongedpressure are lacking in the desirable smoking qualities. They burnunevenly, unwrap and fray, and are markedly lacking in flavor. It istherefore the custom to pack the stogies as tightly and snugly aspossible in the container to compress them and obtain the improvedquality. In the case of stogies which are packed in drums or othercontainers wherein the stogies are placed vertically or on end and fromwhich the stogies are removed by seizing them by their ends and pullingthem out lengthwise, the removal of the first few of the stogies, if thesame be tightly packed, would result in tearing off the ends of thestogies and rupturing the wrapper. The customer, of course, throws theseaside and they are a dead loss to the retailer. The result is thatstogies are commonly packed loosely in such containers and therefore donot receive the beneficial results of tight packing and compression. Theuse of these containers is now generally confined to the poorer gradesof stogies.

My object is to pack the stogies in such a container with the requireddegree of snugness and compression and at the same time provide meanswhereby the stogies may be individually removed lengthwise from thecontainer without the slightest danger of pulling Off or tearing theirends or rupturing their wrappers.

My process is as follows: The stogies when freshly made together with aforeign object, such for instance, as a card board tube having a smoothsurface, are rolled or gathered in a strip of paper or other supportinto a compact bundle 0r bunch of proper density and compression topreserve and improve the smoking qualities of the stogies and of propersize to slip snugly into the container longitudinally. The bunch is thenslipped endwise into the container. The stogies are thus properly packedand compressed. hen placed on sale, the cover of the container isremoved and the tube or other foreign object pulled longitudinally fromthe bunch of stogies, the former slipping out easily, as its sides aresmooth, without injury to the stogies. The stogies are thus left looseenough in the container to permit their ready removal without thebreaking or pulling off of their ends or rupturing or tearing of theirwrappers as is the case where no foreign object is packed with them andfirst removed from the container before attempting to remove thestogies. The tube or other foreign object is preferably of sutlicientlength to substantially span the distance be tween the bottom of thecontainer and the cover, when the latter is in place, thus supportingthe cover against crushing down upon the stogies as frequently happensin the ordinary container.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is an end elevation showing aquantity of stogies and a foreign object gathered on a piece of paperpreparatory to being rolled and compressed together into a bunch to fitthe container; Fig. 2 is an elevation of the bunch; Fig. 3 is a verticalsection of a drum showing the bunch packed therein, and Fig. & is asimilar view showing the lid and the foreign object removed and thestogies loosened in the container for dispensing at retail.

The following is a detailed description of my process as the same isillustrated in the drawings.

A represents a strip of paper, cloth or other convenient material uponwhich is placed the quantity of freshly made stogies 11, as for instanceone hundred, which are to be packed in the container.

B is a foreign object as a smooth car board tube, preferably of slightlygreater length than stogies 11, which is placed with the latter on thepaper A. The packer then seizes the ends of the paper A and rolls andmanipulates its contents until thelatter assumes the form of a tightlycompressed bunch, as shown in Fig. 2, the paper A surrounding the samewith its ends overlapping.

G is the drum or other container, usually of cardboard and of slightlyless height than the stogies 11, so that when on sale the ends of thestogies are exposed to View and may be conveniently seized for withdrawal.

D is a lid of any convenient type, shown for the sake of illustration asof the type now in general use wherein a depending flange 2 slips downover the top of the drum C. The bunch, shown in Fig. 2 is now pusheddown into the drum C and the lid D put on, the upper end of the object Bsupporting the lid out of contact with the ends of thestogies l-1 andthus protecting them from breakage.

\Vhen the stogies are to be exposed for sale, required by law to be inthe original package, the lid D is removed and the object C withdrawnvertically. This withdrawal is readily accomplished as the sides of saidobject are smooth and do not rupture or tear toe stogies and theprotrusion of the end of said object above the stogies provides aconvenient finger grasp. ith the withdrawal of the object B, the stogiesare loosely contained in the drum, as shown in Fig. 4, and may be easilyand safely withdrawn by the purchasers.

As a result of my improved process the field of the drum package hasbeen greatly extended. Owing to the impossibility of withdrawing atightly packed stogie from a drum without destroying the former, thisform of package has been used exclusively for low grade, loosely packedgoods, but by the use of my new process of packing, the drum, thecheapest and in many ways the most desirable form of package, is adaptedfor use in connection with stogies of the very finest quality and mostexpensive grades, and the poorer grades are much improved in quality bybeing packed by my process.

What I desire to claim is 1. The process of packing stogies tightly in acontainer which consists of gathering a quantity of uncompressed stogiesabout a smooth-walled foreign object and manipulating the same into atightly compressed bunch and then inserting said bunch endwise into asnugly fitting container, said foreign object when in place in saidbunch holding said stogies in the required compression but being adaptedto be drawn out longitudinally so that the stogies will remain looselyin said container for easy removal.

2. The process of packing stogies tightly in a container which consistsof gathering a quantity of uncompressed stogies about a smooth walledforeign object and manipulating the same into a tightly compressed bunchand then inserting said bunch endwise into a snugly fitting container,said foreign object when in place in said bunch holding said stogies inthe required compression but being adapted to be drawn outloi'igitudinally so that the stogies will remain loosely in saidcontainer for easy removal, and said foreign object-being ofsufficiently greater length than the stogies to support the lid of thecontainer out of contact with the stogies.

Signed at Pittsburgh, Pa, this 8th day of October, 1912.

GEORGE HENRY SCHMUNK. Witnesses EDWARD A. LAWRENCE,

J. H. HARRISON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). C.

